Mohammad Enoch (17 February 1893 – 16 December 1965) was an Indonesian politician and engineer. He briefly served as Minister of Public Works during the

First Amir Sjarifuddin Cabinet The First Amir Sjarifuddin Cabinet () was the fifth Indonesian cabinet and was in office from 3 July to 11 November 1947. Background Following the resignation of the Third Sjahrir Cabinet on 27 June 1947, President Sukarno called a meeting with t ...

prior to his resignation, and also briefly as mayor of

Yogyakarta Yogyakarta is the capital city of the Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, in the south-central part of the island of Java. As the only Indonesian royal city still ruled by Hamengkubuwono, a monarchy, Yogyakarta is regarded as an importan ...

before that.

Career

Enoch was born in

Cianjur Cianjur () is a town and district in the West Java province of Indonesia, and is the regency seat, seat of Cianjur Regency. The district of Cianjur is located along one of the main roads between Jakarta (120 km to the northwest) and Bandung ...

on 17 February 1893, and obtained his engineering degree in 1930 after 3 years of study. He then joined the Paguyuban Pasundan, becoming a leading member, and also joined the (Parki). After the

proclamation of Indonesian independence The Proclamation of Indonesian Independence (, or simply ''Proklamasi'') was read at 10:00 Tokyo Standard Time on Friday 17 August 1945 in Jakarta. The declaration marked the start of the diplomatic and armed resistance of the Indonesian Nati ...

, Enoch was appointed into the newly formed

Supreme Advisory Council The Supreme Advisory Council (, DPA), was an Advisory board, advisory council for the President of Indonesia which existed from 1945 to 1950, and then again from 1959 to 2003. Largely composed of senior and retired government figures, the DPA was ...

as a regular member. On 21 May 1947, the Republican legislature for

elected him as the city's mayor, although his scheduled official swearing in by the president on 23 June 1947 was postponed. By July 1947, he had been appointed as Minister of Public Works, and hence was replaced as mayor by Poerwokoesoemo. He did not serve long in the position, resigning after just one month. After 1947, Enoch became active in the politics of the

State of Pasundan The State of Pasundan (, ; ) was a federated state, federal state ''(negara bagian)'' formed in the western part of the Indonesian island of Java by the Netherlands in 1948 following the Linggadjati Agreement. It was similar to the geographical ...

, adopting a pro-Republican (i.e. the Republican government in Yogyakarta) stance as a member of the state's parliament. He had reactivated the then-dormant Paguyuban Pasundan in 1947 while still serving as Yogyakarta's mayor as a reaction to the Pasundan state's formation. In January 1949, while in Bandung, Enoch was arrested by the Dutch military along with a number of other pro-Republican politicians in a successful attempt by the Dutch to intimidate Pasundan politicians. The following day, a large number of Pasundan ministers resigned, forcing

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to moderate his pro-Republican stance in government. Following the Dutch-Indonesian Round Table Conference and the formation of the

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, he served as a senator representing Pasundan. Enoch, alongside former regent Soejadi, became the temporary speaker of the senate between the swearing in of senate members on 16 February 1950 and the swearing in of a definitive senate speaker on 27 February 1950. During this period, he also served as the chairman of the senate's credential examination committee and the senate's code of conduct committee. After Indonesia's centralization in 1950, he continued to serve as a legislator in the

Provisional People's Representative Council The Provisional House of Representatives (, DPRS) was the first Indonesian legislature under the Provisional Constitution of 1950. It was formed after the transition of Indonesia to a unitary state on 17 August 1950. The DPRS initially consisted ...

, representing Parki. Enoch resigned from the council on 21 May 1951, and his party never appointed a replacement. He died on 16 December 1965.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Enoch, Mohammad 1893 births 1965 deaths 20th-century mayors of places in Indonesia People from Cianjur Sundanese people Members of the House of Representatives (Indonesia), 1950 Public works ministers of Indonesia